Roland Mall

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Roland Mall
Personnel
Surname Roland Mall
birthday April 17, 1951
place of birth Stuttgart ,  Germany
position midfield player
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1971-1976 VfB Stuttgart 65 (0)
1974-1975 →  VfR Heilbronn  (loan) 21 (8)
1976-1979 Prussia Munster 96 (7)
1979-1981 SC Viktoria Cologne 62 (6)
1 Only league games are given.

Roland Mall (born April 17, 1951 in Stuttgart ) is a former German soccer player. The midfielder played 58 league games in the Bundesliga between 1971 and 1975 at VfB Stuttgart . Then he was in the 2nd Bundesliga until 1981 in a total of 186 games with 21 goals.

career

VfB Stuttgart, until 1976

Mall already played in his youth at VfB and then in its amateur team. After the championship in 1970/71 in the 1st Amateur League North Württemberg, he moved into the final of the German amateur championship with his teammates under coach Karl Bögelein . Defending champion SC Jülich 1910 prevailed again with coach Martin Luppen 1-0. For the new 1971/72 season, the previous amateurs Karl Berger , Wolfgang Frank , Gerd Komorowski and Mall were taken over into the professional squad. Mall made his debut on May 6, 1972 in a 1-1 home draw against 1. FC Cologne in the Bundesliga. He was substituted on for Hans Ettmayer in the 79th minute by his previous amateur coach Bögelein - Branko Zebec had been replaced on April 19, 1972 . Under the new coach Hermann Eppenhoff, he then increased his stakes to 51 Bundesliga games in the next two rounds (1972/73, 1973/74). The 1973/74 season stood out - Mall had played 31 games in the Bundesliga - but thanks to his impressive appearances in the UEFA Cup . Via the clubs Olympiakos Nicosia, Tatran Presov, Dynamow Kiew and Vitoria Setubal, Mall and colleagues played their way through to the semi-finals in April 1974 against Feyenoord Rotterdam . The 3-0 home win on December 12, 1973 against Kiev with their top performers Oleh Blochin and Yevgeny Rudakov after the 2-0 defeat in the first leg was a big surprise. Mall also played in the 1: 2 first leg defeat in Rotterdam, where he met top players such as Wim Rijsbergen , Wim Jansen , Theo de Jong and Willem van Hanegem in the team of coach Wiel Coerver . Feyenoord reached the final with a 2-2 draw in Stuttgart and then prevailed against Tottenham Hotspur. When VfB unexpectedly relegated to the 2nd division in 1974/75, Mall was only used in five league games and made his debut on December 7, 1974 at VfR Heilbronn in a 2-2 home draw against FSV Mainz 05 in the 2nd Bundesliga . At the end of the round, he had scored eight goals in 21 league games for Heilbronn under coach Rudolf Faßnacht and alongside teammates like Karl Hrynda , Reinhold Fanz , Klaus Kubasik and Manfred Grimm . For the 1975/76 round he returned to VfB, who had been relegated to the second division, but only played seven games in a disappointing round. Then Mall Stuttgart turned his back and signed a new contract for the 1976/77 season in the 2nd Bundesliga Group North with Preußen Münster.

2nd Bundesliga in Münster and Cologne, 1976 to 1981

He met his former Heilbronn coach Faßnacht at the Bundesliga founding member in Münster. The Prussians absolutely wanted to return to the Bundesliga and, in addition to Mall with Volker Graul , Alfred Seiler and Klaus Wolf , had invested heavily to achieve this goal. Ranko Petkovic , Heino Hansen and keeper Dietmar Linders joined the Prussian squad during the season . In this era, the league was stigmatized as the “club league” or “treadmill”. In addition to the barely justifiable harshness, she was soon joined by naked aggression. There were several reasons for the brutalization: On the one hand, the financial commitment of the patrons and sponsors, which, based on the expectations derived from them, put tons of weight on the players' shoulders. But also the threatened relegation from the Bundesliga lower house meant for most clubs that the relegated debts could not be paid due to a lack of income from advertising and audience participation. For the players, changes in the club's sporting status meant deep cuts and changes in their lives. In the 1970s, there was another reason for the latent willingness to be aggressive on the soccer field. During this time, a drug that was known to help overcome the normal limit of exhaustion caused a sensation: Captagon . Dieter Meis , who was active at SCP until 1977, named Ross and Reiter: “Rudi Faßnacht was the instigator. He always had a whole stock of Captagon tablets in the trunk of his car. ”At the end of the lap, Münster took sixth place and Faßnacht had come to an end in February 1977, before Werner Biskup started preparations for the 1977/78 season in April . Mall had played 34 of 38 round games (1 goal) and the Prussians took 6th place.

With 28:10 points, the Prussians led the table of the 2nd division group north after the first half of 1977/78 , three points ahead of Rot-Weiss Essen, four points each before Uerdingen, Fortuna Cologne, Bielefeld and Tennis Borussia Berlin. The second half of the season was opened by the Biskup team with a 2-0 home win in front of 30,000 spectators against RW Essen and now led the table with a five-point lead. Mall had made it 2-0 in the 86th minute. It seemed as if the ascent should finally work out. After 38 game days, Münster had to make do with the thankless 3rd place and Mall had scored three goals in 25 league games. In his third year with Preußen Münster, 1978/79, he landed again with his team in third place, but had only missed this round in one of 38 league games and again scored three goals. For the 1979/80 season he accepted an offer from SC Viktoria Köln and moved to the Rhenish cathedral city.

The team of coach Ernst-Günter Habig had strengthened the squad in addition to Mall with other newcomers such as Bernd Helmschrot , Klaus Albert , Rainer Joachimsmeier , Reinhard Schmitz and Frank-Michael Schonert . The team from Höhenberg started the round with 4-0 points, but then got going and finished 8th after the first round with 21-17 points. From the beginning, Mall was a regular player alongside strategists Bernhard Hermes and Jürgen Jendrossek . With a 2-2 away draw at local rivals SC Fortuna Köln , the round ended on May 31, 1980, ranked 4th . Mall had scored four goals in 34 league games. In its second year, the Viktoria finished 11th and could not qualify for the single-track 2nd Bundesliga from the 1981/82 season. Mall had scored two goals in 28 league appearances.

In later years he completed his training to become an A-license soccer coach and worked in the Swabian amateur field, including at TSF Ditzingen. For years after his return to Stuttgart he still played in the traditional VfB team.

literature

  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 . P. 322.
  • Hardy Greens: With the ring on your chest. The history of VfB Stuttgart. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2007. ISBN 978-3-89533-593-8 .
  • Hubert Dahlkamp, ​​Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: Preußen Münster. Football between felt and fans. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 1995. ISBN 3-89533-141-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hubert Dahlkamp, ​​Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: Preußen Münster. Football between felt and fans. P. 160
  2. ^ Hubert Dahlkamp, ​​Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: Preußen Münster. Football between felt and fans. P. 161
  3. ^ Hubert Dahlkamp, ​​Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling: Preußen Münster. Football between felt and fans. Pp. 162/163

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personal data
SURNAME Mall, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart